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Barbara Bray

バーバラ・ブレイ

Bābara Burei

Aliases: Jacobs

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1924-11-24 （Maida Vale, London）
Died
2010-02-25 （Edinburgh） age 85
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English, French, Italian
Residence History
London → Paris → Edinburgh

Career

Occupations
translator, critic, script editor
Active Years
1953-2010
Affiliations
BBC Third Programme
Influenced
Samuel Beckett

Education

Girton College, Cambridge
English
Degree: First Class Honours
Period: 1940年代
Year of Graduation: 1946
Country: United Kingdom
Read English with papers in French and Italian

Awards

PEN Translation Prize
1986
Organization: PEN
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Bibliography

  • Monsieur Proust
  • Antigone
  • French Hospitality
  • A Russian Mother
  • Segu
  • The Swallower Swallowed
  • The Lover
  • The War
  • The Malady of Death
  • Blue Eyes Black Hair
  • Practicalities
  • Summer Rain
  • India Song
  • The Sailor from Gibraltar
  • L'Amante Anglaise
  • Yann Andrea Steiner
  • The Man Sitting in the Corridor
  • Flaubert—Sand: The Correspondence
  • Prisoner of Love
  • The Man Who Planted Trees
  • In the Name of Identity
  • Balthasar's Odyssey
  • The Palace of Dreams
  • The Concert
  • The Samurai
  • The Old Man and the Wolves
  • Terra Amata
  • The Glory of the Empire
  • Clope
  • Dead Letter
  • In Our Strange Gardens
  • Jacques Lacan
  • The Bridge of Beyond
  • Between Two Worlds
  • Women
  • The Ogre
  • Broderie Anglaise

Translations of Works

  • Numerous French works

Health

  • stroke
    2003年末
    Serious disability but continued working

Legacy

Known as a close friend of Samuel Beckett and a major translator of French literature into English.

In Popular Culture

  • Featured in Beckett biographies and recorded conversations

Trivia

  • Identical twin sister Olive Classe, also a translator.
  • Husband John Bray, Australian-born RAF pilot, died in Cyprus accident in 1958.
  • Commissioned early works by Harold Pinter.